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Thursday, August 14, 2008

New Skin

A note on the still-in-progress refinement of Locus Online's look and structure -- I've pretty much finished layout and graphics for the homepage, and for the template post page, which tonight I've used to set the latest New Books page. At the moment the new homepage is posted here, current as of tonight, and all I'd have to do is rename this page to 'index.html' to replace the oldstyle homepage (today's capture now linked from the Site Map) to completely change over...

What's left to do is create new archive pages that align with the newly imposed structure for organizing the site: news, reviews, resources, perspectives. Until now there's been an alignment distinguishing material original to the website from material taken from Locus Magazine, and the new order ignores that, putting all news in one area, all reviews together, and so on. The traditional archive pages don't quite align; and they should reflect the new homepage graphics. Should I post the new homepage even though the archive pages aren't ready yet? Hmm...

Well, why not. I've invited comments to the in-progress redesign twice in the past month, and gotten only two or three; perhaps more will appear once everyone sees it.